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Customer: MediSystem Pharmacy, a Shoppers Drug Mart® Company, pharmacy service provider to long-term care facilities (nursing homes) in Canada.
Challenge: To improve the accuracy, efficiency and accessibility of Medication Administration Records (MARs) and to develop a more modern and reliable system for medication suppliers.
Solution: DIGIMAR, a digital electronic MAR system, developed by InfoMax Technologies Corporation, based on Anoto technology. Currently 1,100 pens are in ...
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After successfully implementing their new Siemens Medication Administration Check™ (MAK) system for bar code medication administration (BCMA) together with the Siemens Soarian® clinical suite, Alegent Health clinicians realized several workflow, usability, compliance, and ergonomic limitations specific to their existing workstation on wheels (WOWs) devices. To realize the full clinical benefits of BCMA and nursing documentation, nurses needed computer access at the patients' bedside, and, the ...
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The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center is a leader in medical research and healthcare delivery. With two campuses located in San Francisco, UCSF has 642 beds and an average daily census of 489 patients. In FY 2007, UCSF had 28,367 discharges and almost 700,000 visits to its 90 ambulatory practices. UCSF is widely recognized as an innovator in adopting healthcare IT solutions that can improve care and enhance clinical workflows. In 2002, UCSF began implementing IDX's ...
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Summary of the CDC Guidelines for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008
Note: All of IT Medical Solutions hardware solutions and equipment meet or exceed the CDC's Guidelines for Disinfection and Sterilization for non-critical equipment within healthcare facilities. This is accomplished by using antimicrobial equipment, mounts and rugged hardware that can withstand traditional cleaning solutions.
Noncritical Items Noncritical items are those that come in contact with ...
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The healthcare industry has undergone a wide range of regulatory changes, patient safety challenges and third-party pressures to improve identifying patients, medications and procedures. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations providing FDA acceptance criteria for electronic signatures, data tracking, as well as patient and laboratory specimen identification. To streamline, automate, and improve accuracy within the healthcare market, regulatory personnel turned to the automatic ...
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The healthcare industry has undergone a wide range of regulatory changes, patient safety challenges and third-party pressures to improve identifying patients, medications and procedures. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued regulations providing FDA acceptance criteria for electronic signatures, data tracking, as well as patient and laboratory specimen identification. To streamline, automate, and improve accuracy within the healthcare market, regulatory personnel turned to the automatic ...
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Implementation of MEDITECH's Client Server Transfusion Administration Record (TAR) to Enhance Transfusion Safety
John Saulenas, Senior Consultant, MEDITECH Practice
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) reports that each year more than 4 million people require blood transfusions. A great deal of time and effort has been spent in the last three decades to ensure that our nation's blood supply is safe. However, transfusion mistakes cause between 50 -100 preventable patient deaths ...
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How Ruggedness Reduces TCO for Mobile Computers
General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, are designed for different tasks, and also vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). Organizations can’t afford to overlook this important difference in challenging times when all costs are under scrutiny and funds for new equipment are oftentimes limited. ...
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the ambulatory physician's guide to electronic medical records
integrated vs. interfaced hosting models - asp or client/server? what is CCHIT Certification? what is KLAS®? how price affects system features
1.800.494.3188 www.mdsmedicalsoftware.com
The Physician's Guide to Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software
A challenge awaits the physician who has had enough of the frustrating inefficiencies, financial penalties, and antiquated practices associated with maintaining a paper-based ...
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This paper explores how a technology implementation in internal medical billing depart- ments and at third-party billing companies can deliver a significant return on investment with faster collections, quantifiable cost reductions and significant productivity gains. This report documents the return on investment of implementing a best-of-class electronic document management solution.
We invite you to learn more about how you can achieve these results by visiting www.laserfiche.com/webinar ...
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First, it would supportour goal of creating a more efficient work envi- ? ronment for our patients, staff, and physicians. As an electronicpractice, we have found that leveragingtech- nology in combinationwith our staff resources helps us to deliver a higher quality of care. Second,we also wanted to increase the accuracy of aU the patient data we capture. Accuracy is especially crucial in the cardiologyfield because clinical deci- sions are ofien driven by precise, technical information. ...
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The impetus for electronic medical record (EMR) adoption has never been stronger, bolstered by the Obama Administration’s push for legislation to promote healthcare reform. David Blumenthal M.D., the President’s choice for National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (HIT) brings extensive knowledge in health care information technology to the position. According to Linda Kloss, CEO of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Blumenthal’s appointment illustrates ...
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As the core electronic medical record, OpenVista CareVue serves as the foundation for automation of behavioral health care through a series of System Design Blocks (SDS) that come into play during system implementation. Medsphere’s SDSs provide how-to perspective on OpenVista and its broad functional
support for different care settings, and also ensure user acceptance and system effectiveness.
Medsphere uses SDSs to guide hospitals in setting up
customized documentation focused on behavioral ...
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Outsourcing is defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production to an external entity that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing, over the last ten years, has received an undeserved bad “rap” due to the many jobs that have left the country to go overseas. This area is a subset of outsourcing called “off shoring” and is not the subject of this white paper.
This white paper focuses on domestic outsourcing within healthcare, specifically for the medical ...
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Roselle, IL –August 27, 2010 -- Del Medical, Inc. ("Del Medical" or "the Company") today announced they were recently awarded a Mexican tender from IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social) for over twenty complete Del Medical DR radiographic rooms valued in excess of $2 million. Each 50kw, floor- mounted tube stand system is equipped with Del's popular EV650 elevating, four-way, float top table and bundled with a DelWorks Medical DR package. Each package includes a 14” x 17” portable flat ...
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This white paper highlights Windows Embedded technology, which is being widely accepted and proven technology in the field of Medical Device manufacture and production. This white paper is an effort to highlight some of the crucial features and application areas of Windows Embedded technology for Medical Instrumentation and control.
As the Medical healthcare industry increasingly demands more intelligent and reliable systems that works seamlessly together, the Microsoft Windows Embedded ...
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VistA is a comprehensive integrated clinical support system that has been the primary electronic tool in a revolutionary reordering of reality at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), yielding a cost-efficient and clinically sound agency that now bests the private sector in many clinical quality indicators and serves as a prime example of how IT can improve healthcare.
But for all its positive features, VistA still requires upgrades and enhancements, as would any IT system of even ...
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Island Hospital is a 43-bed Level III Trauma hospital based in Anacortes, Washington. It is a tax-supported facility that provides medical-surgical services to Fidalgo Island, north Whidbey Island, San Juan County and western Skagit County.
Island has been recognized for being one of 100 hospitals displaying the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five years (2000-04). Top 100 organizations have shown consistent improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital ...
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Computer assisted coding (CAC) is growing rapidly in the ambulatory setting, which prompts many administrators, coding managers, and HIM professionals to ask whether CAC can also be successful in their hospital? Looking at the successful deployment of CAC in the ambulatory setting one might expect that CAC should produce immediate benefits when applied to the hospital coding environment. However, the use of CAC for acute care coding is relatively low.
In this paper, we address the obstacles ...
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Workstations on Wheels: What’s Your total Cost of oWnership?
Workstations on Wheels: What’s Your total Cost of oWnership?
Workstations on Wheels: What’s Your total Cost of oWnership?
in today’s tough economic times, hospital capital spending is under intense scrutiny. With many competing it demands and priorities, return on investment (roi) is often a decisive factor in evaluating it initiatives. total Cost of ownership (tCo) is a key element in roi calculations. lowest cost does not equate ...
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Unleashing the Power of Point of Care information teChnology in healthCare
Unleashing the Power of Point of Care information teChnology in healthCare
the clinical device market is experiencing a resurgence fueled by technology enhancements that are driven largely by extension of electronic medical records (emrs) to the point of care (PoC). emrs are extended through mobile point of care devices that may be mobile e.g., mobile workstations on wheels (wows), or portable e.g., tablets, hand held, ...
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The consensus among healthcare professionals is that while the last two decades have produced significant technological advances, the majority of United States-based healthcare providers and facilities remain ‘behind the mark’ in achieving their full potential for delivering informed and expedient treatment.
In the complex and intricate world of healthcare there exists a myriad of solutions that promise to help these organizations to reach the goal of optimized service. Among these, the ...
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In business, the use of information technology (IT) is ubiquitous. Businesses in nearly all sectors have realized the benefits of IT including improved customer service, decreased transaction time, increased tracking of market trends, and improved flow of products and ideas. When one is withdrawing money in a bank, for example, the banker never says “just wait right here while I transfer over your paper records.” Yet in healthcare, paper-based records have persisted despite advances in ...
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Medical devices developed for human application are used for diagnostic or treatment purposes. They may either be an instrument, an apparatus or a material. Moreover, these devices can be used for daily patient care as well as for medical scientific purposes. Researchers in charge to develop new medical devices are faced with the complex task of making a medical device safe for human use. This implies that the device should be safe and effective. Risk management involves the identification, ...
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Trumbull Medical Practice LLC is a one-physician medical practice based in Trumbull, Connecticut. The owner of the practice, Dr. John Flores, was recruited by the nearby Bridgeport Hospital to locate in the area because it is medically underserved, particularly by physicians who are bi-lingual in English and Spanish. After three years of working for the hospital, Dr. Flores bought out the practice. Trumbull initially used AthenaNet for practice management and billing, because that was the ...
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As the Hurricane Katrina disaster demonstrated in 2005, the American health care system and the underlying physical and informational infrastructure that supports it is incredibly fragile. In the aftermath of the hurricane recovery operation, paper-based health records were destroyed and proved quite difficult to reproduce. Of all of the evacuees who moved from New Orleans to a new location, the only group of people who did not experience any major disruptions in receiving care was military ...
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electronic Medical record (eMr) systems offer the potential to dramatically improve the cost and quality of healthcare. however, despite their potential and market forces favoring their adoption, eMr software is used by only 20% of clinicians in the U.S. today.
this white paper identifies forces both driving and inhibiting eMr adoption. eMr systems’ inflexibility and other limitations often prevent them from being used effectively by a broad range of physicians – without help from enabling ...
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Many physician practices have resisted electronic health record (EHR) adoption because of cost, concerns about disruption to the practice and changes to clinical workflow. Find out how to leverage the incentives offered in the recent economic stimulus package and navigate through the complexity associated with choosing the right EHR solution for managing your practice.
For several years, the physician community has heard the ongoing dialogue about the adoption of Electronic Health Records ...
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Webmedx Technology and Services Provide a Bridge to the EHR for Rockwood Clinic
Combination of Narrative Transcription and EHR Templates Ease Transition, Improve Physician Adoption and Support Physician Productivity.
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Webmedx Technology and Services Provide a Bridge to the EHR for Rockwood Clinic
Combination of Narrative Transcription and EHR Templates Ease Transition, Improve Physician Adoption ...
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Well into the computer age, healthcare lags badly behind other industries in the adoption of comprehensive information technology that facilitates greater efficiencies and improves vital functions. Despite more than sufficient evidence that clinical systems help improve care, save lives, reduce costs and increase revenue, right now only 15 percent of health organizations use advanced clinical systems and electronic health records (EHRs). Be it a hospital, an ambulatory clinic or a physician ...
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The medical world is making astounding, constant progress. Tools available to caregivers are continually improving, increasing diagnosis and treatment options. This trend has significantly increase total patient medical data. Concurrently, patients are becoming increasingly mobile and seeing more caregivers than in the past. Together, these trends have resulted in numerous partial medical records scattered among physicians, systems and institutions; as opposed to a single, comprehensive medical ...
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The role and quality of clinical documentation has taken on greater importance in an environment driven by outcomes and “pay for performance” measures.
In the rush to computerize patient information, it’s been assumed that once electronic medi- cal record (EMR) systems are widely deployed, patient records would be more complete and provide substantial cost savings,1 while the quality of care would universally be safer.2 However, studies have shown that in some cases, the adoption of ...
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University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center Tracking Assets to Improve OR Efficiency
“Savings on redundant equipment frees up budget to purchase some of the latest technology advances that offer non or minimally invasive approaches to surgical procedures. This can have significant impact on patient care, physician satisfaction and the bottom line. – James Bennan, Administrative Director for Perioperative Services
Introduction University of California San Francisco (UCSF) ...
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Key Components of a Successful HIE Strategy
Background What is the best way to build a health information exchange (HIE)? Answering that question is the focus of communities and states, hospitals, health systems, and physicians across the country in the wake of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. ARRA is offering providers across the country incentives for adopting electronic health records (EHRs) to improve healthcare quality, safety, and efficiency while reducing ...
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The health care buzzwords of the moment are electronic medical records (EMR) and electronic health
records (EHR). Electronic records are coming fast with the advent of the President’s Stimulus
Package and push to implement EMR/EHR in practices and health care institutions by 2014, and to
create a functioning, interoperable National Health Information Network beginning in 2016.
The goal here is to create a collaborative health care community where a patient’s clinical data is
available to ...
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The most important aspect of medical billing is facilitating timely payment of providers, and yet the process for reimbursement is one of the most cumbersome in the health care industry. Electronic billing cuts this month‐long paper process down to roughly seven business days by quickly returning clearinghouse and payer‐generated reports, but the rising costs associated with getting paid are far from negligible, and choosing affordable practice management software is now a pivotal function of ...
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Physicians are working harder than ever before to see even a small increase in their income. From 2004 to 2005 median gross charges for primary care doctors rose 6.8%, but their median compensation only increased 3.9%.1 That means that less and less of your practice's revenue goes into your pocket. And despite seeing more patients and thereby increasing their billing, physicians' real income after inflation has actually decreased an average of 7.1% between 1995 and 2003, with primary care ...
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Industry experience with inpatient clinical documentation and ordering systems has demonstrated the importance of providing clinicians with tools that enable real-time access to information at the points of care and decision. Children's Hospital (Children's) in Omaha, Nebraska, has deployed the Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager™ EMR and provided access through desktop PCs and computers on wheels (COWs). In daily use, however, it became clear that access to fixed devices in the Children's ...
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For decades, hospitals, physician groups and other healthcare providers have automated many individual tasks in handling clinical information. The admissions clerk taps patients' health and insurance information into a computer rather than writing it on paper. Patients' MRIs and lab results probably exist only on a computer disk rather than on film and paper, and their nurses might record their vital signs on a portable computer rather than on a clipboard.
Each of these applications reduces ...
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Healthcare's Most Expensive Piece of Paper
A Strategy for Lowering Costs, Reducing Risk, and Enhancing Safety by Automating the Informed Consent Process
Healthcare's Most Expensive Piece of Paper
Executive Summary Obtaining informed consent is a ubiquitous process that forms the cornerstone of medical documentation. This process impacts every patient who enters a healthcare facility to receive a treatment or procedure. The product of this process is typically a signed, informed consent form ...
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Quantifying the Value Proposition and ROI for Electronically Connecting Hospitals and Community Physicians
Background Hospitals have an opportunity, spurred by stimulus funding available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), to create and expand health information exchange (HIE) both with current affiliated physicians and with the broader healthcare community. To date, information about the value of an HIE solution to different types of physician practices with ...
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Medical facilities are constantly striving to increase the quality of patient care. Yet a shortage in qualified nursing staff, a key component in quality patient care, will continue for the foreseeable future. This has prompted the need to be able to perform more work, with greater accuracy, using fewer resources. In order to address this seemingly paradoxical situation a new breed of technology has emerged in the healthcare industry. Advances in Bio-Medical Device Integration (BMDI) have been ...
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New technologies are being introduced in hospitals and labs at an ever-increasing rate, and many of these innovations have the potential to interact synergistically if they can be integrated effectively. The need for “plug-and-play” interoperability – the ability to take a medical device out of its box and easily make it work with one’s other devices or applications– has attracted great attention from both healthcare providers and industry.
EMRGateway is one such software solution that ...
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Despite the documented advantages of an electronic medical record (EMR) and the push for providers to adopt EMR by 2012, there remains a chronic resistance to embrace this new technology. For many providers, especially smaller practices, concerns about cost and other challenges limit their ability to see long-term benets. Some believe that paper works ne, so why make the change?
A recent survey of 2,758 physicians published by the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General reported ...
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Medical CT, MRI, and other scanned images can be treated as 3D data sets. Modern computers and GPUs provide substantial resources to process these 3D datasets in real time for faster diagnosis and improved visualization techniques. The suitability of various GPU products for medical imaging is not obvious from common benchmarks, so medical benchmarks are required to understand which products are appropriate.
The technology of digital imaging for visualizing medical information is rapidly ...
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There are numerous benefits that an Application Service Provider (ASP) EMR can offer over a Local Client Server (LCS) such as lower cost, greater efficiency, lower maintenance, ability to share and manipulate data and much more.
If the benefits of an ASP outweigh the benefits of an LCS then why is there still a debate over which application is the right solution for physicians? The debate is over the concern some physicians have with the safety of their patient information and the reliability ...
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Media Contact: Nelson Jain Email: pr@omnimd.com
OmniMD chooses the MEDCIN® Terminology Engine for its Specialty EMR
Tarrytown (NY)—Sept 13, 2005--- OmniMD, a leading developer of HIPAA-compliant healthcare solutions, has announced the availability of MEDCIN® clinical engine in its Specialty Electronic Medical Records (EMR) product. MEDCIN® includes more than 270,000 clinical data elements covering symptoms, history, physical examination, tests, diagnoses and therapy. MEDCIN® has evolved over ...
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Beds: ● 150 Admissions: ● 5252 per year Staff: ● 578 Exams: ● 61,000 per year ● 160,000 patients in database Interfaces: ● SMS outbound for billing and results ● OPUS inbound for patient demographics Add-Ons ● E-Fax for physician reports ● Mammography
“The program does what it is intended to do, and the support people are helpful anytime you call.”
“It's great to call support and talk to a real, live person!”
As RISynergy Coordinator for Auburn Regional Medical Center in Auburn, WA, it's ...
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An essential element of U.S. healthcare reform is the effective use of information to support better decision making and more effective care processes, resulting in improved health outcomes and reduced cost growth. The recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 offers an unprecedented opportunity for healthcare providers to bring information to the center of care by creating $19.2 billion in
incentives for hospitals and physicians to adopt a certified electronic ...
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As medical device OEMs know, a product designed for the medical market is fundamentally different from one intended for industrial use. This is also true for a foot control.
From the bottom pads to the mating connector, the design requirements for a medical-grade foot control are significantly different from those of an “industrial-grade” unit.
Important design factors for medical use, many of which are often less-critically considered when designing for an industrial application, include:
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As part of President Obama's economic stimulus package officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (or ARRA) approximately $20 Billion has been allocated to incentivize hospitals and physicians to adopt Healthcare IT technology such as Electronic Health Records and E‐Prescribing.
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Contact: Nelson Jain pr@omnimd.com 914-332-5590 x 414
Electronic Medical Records – Multiple Data Input Options
The most critical part of any Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is the method of data entry. An EMR uses aggregation of patient encounter data at the point-of-care to provide a complete, accurate, and timely view of patient information. An electronic medical record is not just a typed record of the patient encounter, but an extremely useful decision support tool. The data can be ...
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Human lives weigh in the balance every day in hospi- tals. For hospital patients and their families, the hospi- tal experience is often a central point in their life – where their child was born, their beloved died, where they received life-saving treatment, rejuvenating therapy or care to overcome an episode of illness. The hospi- tal is the setting of oft-told tales among friends and family through the generations. It is no wonder that hospitals are often used to depict human drama – and even ...
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The efforts to standardize clinical documentation are gaining momentum with collaborations such as the Health Story Project. The advancement of speech recognition, transcription and electronic documentation technologies provide the platforms to produce standardized documentation without placing additional burdens on clinicians. Computer assisted coding (CAC) solutions are benefactors of this effort which, in turn, also benefits HIM departments. All HIM professionals know that more consistent ...
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International studies have demonstrated that about 65% to 80% of the population will experience back pain at some time during their lives [7,10]. Low back pain (LBP) is expected to become a chronic problem in 5% to 10% of patients and it is estimated that at any given time, 2% of the population is disabled because of back problems [1]. The total annual costs of back pain in the United States have been estimated at $20 to $50 billion [19] despite efforts by managed care orga- nizations to ...
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Defining the Best Attributes to Approaching a Connected Physician Community
“Have it your way.” This famous slogan has become part of the hamburger competitive advertising folklore as McDonalds and Burger King fought for market share. As you may remember, the positioning was McDonalds only prepared hamburgers one way, and Burger King would add or take off items to fit your tastes.
Approaching integration with Electronic Health Records (EHR) or Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is much the same ...
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Support for the Use of the Cervico2000™ For the Treatment of Cervical Spine Disorders
A Summary of Medical Literature and Testimonials
A l l a b o u t t h e C e r v i c o 2 0 0 0
Cervical pathologies were treated for years with various methods of cervical traction but, unfortunately, with poor results. After many years of research we came to the conclusion that the poor results attained by previous cervical traction methodology were the result of poor technique and not the fundamental ...
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Approximately 75-80% of `off-site' medical waste treatment facilities use Steam Sterilization as the method of treatment. Steam Sterilization is commonly used by `on-site' Medical Centers and Hospitals for their medical waste treatment. Many such facilities are periodically monitoring the efficacy of their Sterilization process with Biological Indicators. In most States, the Dept of Health has set up Regulations requiring the periodic Monitoring of such Sterilization Cycles. The Biological ...
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Your road to a successful EMR implementation requires careful planning and execution of many events over many months (or years). One of the most important set of events early on, is the development of eight key strategies. They include:
· Software Rollout
· Site Rollout
· Communication
· Hardware
· Change Leadership/Go-Live Readiness
· Scanning and Data Pre-Population
· Training
· Support
For your EMR drive, consider this illustration. Your goals/objectives are the hub, your ...
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Historically medical device manufacturers, requiring a foot control as a human interface, have used a cabled unit that would plug-into the console of the device being operated. Until recently, a “cabled” unit has been the only available option.
While these “cabled” solutions proved to be acceptable, many OEMs recognized that the cable presented some limitations. These included:
· The cable posed a “tripping hazard” to personnel. · The cable limited the location of the foot control relative to ...
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The government requires physicians to implement Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR) software by 2015. Here are the answers to your most frequently asked questions.
What exactly is meaningful use? How is it determined?
Criteria for Stage I meaningful use requirements have recently been finalized by CMS. The EHR selected must be able to handle 15 specific core capabilities set forth by CMS. Additionally, a listing of 10 optional capabilities exists, of which the eligible provider must choose ...
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St. Croix Systems’ software module enabled Hennepin County Medical Center to reduce equipment rentals and capital purchases as well as boost patient revenue.
When Hennepin County Medical Center got a clearer picture of the equipment usage in its system, it was able to optimize capital spending, boost operational efficiency and increase charge-back revenue. The Minneapolis hospital took that high-resolution picture—thanks to a software module from St. Croix Systems that tracks the utilization ...
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Image Enhanced Automated ICD Search Technology
In order to provide a more rapid means of identifying correct ICD codes after diagnosis of a medical condition, anatomical images have been incorporated into traditional computer based code look-up technology. This patent pending technique was developed in anticipation of the need to accommodate the tremendous increase in the number of ICD-10 codes. This Image Enhanced Code Look-Up technology is available for evaluation at HYPERLINK ...
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Guidelines For Speech-accessible htML for Dragon® NaturallySpeaking and Dragon® Medical
White Paper | Guidelines For Speech-Accessible HTML for Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical
Overview ........................................ ........................................ ........................................ .........3 General Requirements ........................................ ........................................ .............................3 ...
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If executed well, wireless home care solutions can significantly enhance an organization's quality of service and profitability, not to mention providing a defensible source of competitive differentiation. So why aren't more organizations investing in these solutions? Why does there continue to be a general reluctance or hesitancy in automating home care service processes?
At issue are the role of home care service providers within the health care sector and the approaches taken to automate ...
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A White Paper by Stratus Technologies June 2008
Best Practices for Server Virtualization in Mission-Critical Healthcare IT
Abstract Server virtualization is beginning to be deployed in healthcare information technology (IT), and holds great potential for containing IT costs and addressing application lifecycle management issues. Along with these substantial advantages come challenges and risks. This paper provides an introduction to server virtualization for hospitals and healthcare delivery ...
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The advent of technology in the medical industry is exposing many operational inefficiencies and redundancies that were previously unoticed or unavoidable. Technology has improved medical office claims management, A/R balances, data storage, and coding so signicantly that doctors are investing in updated computer systems in an effort to stay competitive.
Market analysts estimate that the U.S. Healthcare System is so inefficient that 24 cents out of every dollar are wasted on administrative ...
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Electromagnetic interference (EMI) between wireless electronic transmitting devices and medical equipment is a small but growing problem in the healthcare industry that should not be ignored by healthcare organizations (HCOs). Although studies and anecdotal evidence show that the critical functions of most modern medical devices are immune to wireless RF emissions, the potential for EMI does exist. While the risk of EMI caused by wireless devices to medical equipment (and patient health) is ...
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JPEG2000 is the ISO standard adopted by DICOM for image compression and is commonly used to compress medical images. Part 1 of the standard provides the core coding system, specifying both lossy and lossless compression. Part 2 provides extensions to the standard useful for a variety of applications. For 3 dimensional data sets there are Part 2 exten- sions that allow for the use of several different types of decorrelating transformations in the third dimension, referred to as multiple ...
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These guidelines explain how to make a Windows® application compatible with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical (referred to collectively in this document as Dragon). The guidelines are intended for all Windows application developers. The primary goal of these guidelines is to allow applications to work with Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Dragon) “out of the box,” that is, without the necessity of using the Dragon SDK to integrate speech into the application. However, following them will ...
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These guidelines explain how to make a Windows® application compatible with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Dragon Medical (referred to collectively in this document as Dragon). The guidelines are intended for all Windows application developers. The primary goal of these guidelines is to allow applications to work with Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Dragon) “out of the box,” that is, without the necessity of using the Dragon SDK to integrate speech into the application. However, following them will ...
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Industry wide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) is moving closer to fruition, largely due to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), part of the Obama administration’s 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). This legislation will trigger unprecedented investments and incentives in health information technology, creating an opportunity to drive new levels of EHR adoption and health information exchange across an interoperable ...
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As healthcare organizations continue to grow and serve greater volumes of patients, persistent, high no-show rates have an increasingly greater impact on revenue.
Though direct mail has traditionally been effective reminding patients of their appointments, leading providers have embraced automated phone messages to supplement, and often, completely replace, this older method. Automated messaging allows quicker, more cost-effective communication, and those who employ it are experiencing ...
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Decrease Costs & Increase Revenue an AdvancedMD WhitePaper
“The U.S. Healthcare system is so inefcient that 24 cents out of every dollar is wasted on administrative and billing expenses”
The advent of technology in the medical industry is exposing many operational inefciencies and redundancies that were previously unoticed or unavoidable. Technology has improved medical ofce claims management, A/R balances, data storage, and coding so signicantly that doctors are investing in updated computer ...
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24/7 Uptime for Electronic Health Records: Microsoft Windows-based EHRs and Stratus Medical Grade Servers
Abstract The long migration to electronic health records (EHRs) in the U.S. is set to speed up with the funding authorized by the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009. Recognizing how electronic health records help improve outcomes for patients, hold down rising costs and increase access to quality care, physicians and practice managers evaluating EHRs can be expected to assess ...
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The road to a successful IT Strategic Plan requires a bridge that integrates technologies to the organization's strategies, allowing for a coordination of efforts and organizational focus that closes the gap between business vision and technology use. The days of reactively responding to the request for changes and enhancements in a decentralized IT landscape will not allow for a healthcare organization's evolution
A recent HIMSS Analytics Poll reported that 5,012 hospitals indicated having ...
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The Obama administration has identified the adoption of interoperable electronic health records (EHR) as a key means to substantially reduce healthcare costs. Given that medical imaging is known to be a significant source of cost in the healthcare industry, an EHR solution must address medical imagery to take full advantage of its full cost-saving potential. But the size and growth of medical image data, as well as the preponderance of proprietary imaging systems, makes the incorporation of ...
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Bridging the Gap: Managing a Smoother Vendor Integration
It’s a reality of running a medical practice: chances are you will not find a perfect electronic medical records (EMR) provider that also offers a robust practice management product at an affordable price. And vice versa.
To thoroughly address both the clinical and administrative requirements of your practice, you might decide on
an integration – a bridge that links products from two different vendors using an industry standard ...
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Physician Office Usage of Electronic Medical Records Software
Overall Office Response By Number of Physicians at Site By Number of Exam Rooms at Site By Average Daily Patient Volume By Practice Specialty
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The Stimulus Bill American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ARRA
The section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, stimulus bill that applies to Health Information Technology is called the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the HITECH Act. It provides money for the adoption and “meaningful use” of a “certified” Electronic Health Record. The money you can receive for implementing this is best explained in the table below:
Incentive amounts when EHR ...
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In the rush to computerize patient information, it’s been assumed that once electronic medical record (EMR) systems are widely deployed, patient records would be more complete and provide substantial cost savings while the quality of care would universally be safer. However, studies have shown that in some cases, the adoption of highly-structured clinical documentation templates do not in themselves lead to higher quality care, as template-based systems do not support the capture of the ...
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Women’s Care Improves Patient Care, Improves Productivity, Eliminates Paperwork, and Gains $214,176 in Net Benefits with Ingenix CareTracker EMR
With the use of Ingenix CareTracker EMR, Women’s Care reduced the turnaround time for lab results from days to hours. By using Ingenix CareTracker EMR to reduce the use of paper-based charts, Women’s Care will realize an estimated cumulative $178,000 in savings over five years. Women’s Care will see a cumulative five-year productivity benefit of ...
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Copyright © 2008 Nuesoft Technologies Inc.
Evaluate the experience of your vendors................................. ........................................ ............... 1
Adopt a project management approach................................ ........................................ .................. 2 Define roles and responsibilities Hold a kick-off meeting Incorporate regular, ongoing communication Plan for future product changes
Copyright © 2008 Nuesoft Technologies Inc.
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Are your resources used in the optimal way?
Utilization of resources is important in any area of business activity. Healthcare is no exception– lack of focus and misallocation of resources may not only cost more, but may have negative impact on quality.
The Utilization Review, Medical Review, Utilization Management and similar processes were implemented to improve the effectiveness of an organization involved in the health care delivery. We will use the term Utilization Review throughout ...
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Exchanging Information and Creating Mutual Value - A new mandate for healthcare communications
American health plans have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade in enabling their provider networks. All too often, the public hears only the downside of the administrative aspects of plan and provider interactions. A healthcare provider’s practice does spend hours working through the paperwork to secure payment for services. Some of those hours are simply a consequence of ...
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SEVEN STEPS TO IMPROVE THE FINANCIAL HEALTH OF YOUR ED
Is your ED in need of critical care? Seven Steps to Improve the Financial Health of your ED
Emergency care providers face many opposing forces that impact both their ability to provide quality care and to maximize financial performance in the Emergency Department (ED). From ED overcrowding to increasing patient volumes, these trends are not likely to change in the near future. Over the past decade, the average wait time for emergency room ...
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Accurate patient identification is critical to achieving the benefits of electronic medical records and to ensuring patient safety. There is also an increasing need for positive staff ID to protect patient privacy and track e-prescribing. This paper analyzes identification problems and evaluates available biometric solutions.
Patient ID. Electronic medical record (EMR) systems are powerful tools for improving care, but their power also expands opportunities for error. As EMRs and Health ...
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Medical Device Connectivity is a technology that is proven to save nursing time, reduce transcription errors, and allow nurses to spend more time on direct patient care activities. Yet for years device integration has been limited to high acuity environments such as critical care. There are many reasons why this limitation existed. First, critical care areas have the greatest need for device integration because of the sheer number of devices connected to a patient and the frequency with which ...
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Case Study: North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is the third-largest, non-profit healthcare system in the United States. With a $4 billion annual operating budget it is responsible for delivering safe, high quality healthcare services to 5.2 million people in Long Island, Queens and Staten Island areas. As the first health system to attain the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Codman Award, it is ...
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CONTACT: Mike Dolan VP, Sales and Marketing (952) 905-3440 mdolan@acuotech.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Acuo Technologies Announces Patent for Asset Communication Format within a Computer Network
Acuo Technologies Announces Patent for Routing and Storage of Digital Assets such as Medical Images
BLOOMINGTON, MN, November 27, 2009 – ACUO TECHNOLOGIES, developers of high-performance medical image management software, data migration tools and services, is pleased to announce that the United States ...
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A smarter healthcare system: its time has come
Remarks (as prepared) by Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
2009 Medical Innovation Summit, Cleveland Clinic October 6, 2009
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Donations of electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/EHR) technology items and services.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and recent guidance provided by the IRS, HealthPort recently asked McDermott Will & Emery LLP, a well-known law firm specializing in healthcare, to review and summarize the company’s impact on current and prospective hospital customers interested in purchasing Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology for deployment to their staff physicians. ...
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